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*“Residual Transcriptions: Ruth Landes and the Archive of Conjure,” Transforming Anthropology April 2018, 26(1): 3-17 CURRICULUM VITAE: SOLIMAR OTERO, PH.D. Contact Information: 260 Allen Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225) 578 – 3046 CURRICULUM VITAE [email protected] SOLIMAR OTERO, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY I. EDUCATION 2002 Ph.D., Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania. 1997 M.A., Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania. 1994 B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, (Suma Cum Laude). II. RECENT PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2017-present Director, LSU Program in Comparative Literature. 2005–present Associate Professor, English, Louisiana State University. 2015 –present Director, Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, LSU. 2016 - 2017 Director, Summer Study Abroad Program, Ogden Honors College, LSU. 2014 Spring semester, Associate Chair, Department of English. 2009–2010 Visiting Research Associate and Assistant Professor of Folklore and Afro-Atlantic Religion, Harvard Divinity School, Women in Religion Program, Cambridge. III. GRANTS AND AWARDS (EXCERPT) 2018 LSU Distinguished Faculty Award 2017 Manship Summer Research Grant 2015 Regents Research Grant, LSU, Fall 2015. 2014 Manship Summer Research Grant, LSU, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2013 H.M. “Hub” Cotton Award for Faculty Excellence, Louisiana State University. 2013 Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Fellowship, Research in Cuba and at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 2012 Sabbatical Research Award, LSU, for research at the Lydia Cabrera Papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami, Miami, Florida. 2009–2010 Research Associate and Visiting Faculty, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, 2009-2010 academic year. 2007 PI, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Outreach Grant, Louisiana Folklore Society Meeting. 2000 - 2001 Fulbright IIE Grant for Research in Nigeria. IV. PUBLICATIONS (EXCERPT) Books: Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World. Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010. Kindle and paperback editions, 2013. Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas co-edited with Toyin Falola. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2013. Short listed for the 2014 Albert J. Raboteau book prize. Archives of Conjure: Afro-Latinx Residual Transcriptions of the Dead, (pending review). Journal Articles: *“Residual Transcriptions: Ruth Landes and the Archive of Conjure,” Transforming Anthropology April 2018, 26(1): 3-17. *Guest Editor, (with Mintzi Martínez-Rivera), “Introduction: Poder y Cultura, Latinx Folklore and Popular Culture,” Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures 2 (1), Fall 2017, pp. 6-15. Selected for the Project Muse Journal of the Month (February 2018) *“In the Water with Erinle: Siren Songs and Performance in Caribbean Southern Ports,”Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference,” Southern Quarterly, (in press, Spring 2018). * “Traveling Transcriptions, Unfinished Stories, and the Living Archive.” Afro-Hispanic Review, (in press, Spring 2018). 1 CURRICULUM VITAE: SOLIMAR OTERO, PH.D. *“Entre las aguas / Between Waters: Interorality in Cuban Vernacular Religious Storytelling,” The Journal of American Folklore, Spring 2015, 128 (508): 195 – 221. *“The ruins of Havana: representations of memory, religion, and gender,” Atlantic Studies, June 2012, 9(2): 143 – 163. *“Santeria Health Systems: Looking at ‘La Limpieza’ An Ethnographic Study of Yoruba-Cuban Folk Medicine,”Louisiana Folklore Miscellany XVIII (2008): 4 – 21. * “Introduction: Investigating Possession Pasts: Memory and Afro-Caribbean Religion and Folklore,” Western Folklore, Winter & Spring 2007, Volume 66 (1/2): 7 – 14. *“Spirit Possession, Havana, and the Night: Listening and Ritual in Cuban Fiction,” Western Folklore, Winter & Spring 2007, Volume 66 (1/2): 45 – 74. *“Barrio, Bodega, and Botanica Aesthetics: The Layered Traditions of the Latino Imaginary.” Atlantic Studies, October 2007, 4(2):173 – 194. *“El sistema de la salud y el bienestar en la religión de la santería cubana,” Revista de Investigaciones Folclóricas, December 2006, 21: 144 -158. *“Dreaming the Barrio: Afrolatinos and the Shaping of Public Space in Africa.” Phoebe: Gender and Cultural Critiques Fall 2006, 18(2):31-52. * “A Tale of Two Cities”: “Ethnic” Yoruba in 19th Century Havana.” Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora Summer/Autumn 2003, 6 (2): 79 - 124. * “Afrolatino Diasporas and Inventing Home in the Americas and Africa,” Black Scholar Autumn/Winter 2000, 30(3-4): 54-56. *“Iku and Cuban Nationhood: Yoruba Mythology in the Film Guantanamera." Africa Today, Spring 1999, 46:116 - 130. *“Fearing Our Mothers: An Overview of the Psychoanalytic Theories Concerning the Vagina Dentata Motif, F547.1.1.” The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, September 1996, 56(3): 269 -288. Chapters in Books: *“Crossing Spirits, Negotiating Cultures: Transmigration, Transculturation, and Interorality in Cuban Espiritismo,” in The Caribbean Oral Tradition: Literature, Performance, and Practice, edited by Hanetha Vete-Congolo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 85 – 107. *“Yemayá y Ochún: Queering the Vernacular Logics of the Waters,” in Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas, edited by Otero and Falola. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013, pp. 85 – 112. *“Introducing Yemoja,” in Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas, edited by Otero and Falola. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013, pp. xvii – xxxii. *“Esu at the Transatlantic Crossroads: Locations of Crossing Over,” in Esu: Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers, ed. Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013, pp. 191 – 214. *“Getting There and Back: The Ontological Journey in Nuyorican Memoir and Fiction.” Writing Of(f) the Hyphen: Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, eds. Jose L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen H. Rivera. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008, pp. 274 -292. V. ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS IN ASSOCIATIONS (EXCERPT) Board Member, Louisiana Folklore Society, 2011 – present. Board Member, American Folklore Society, 2012 – 2015. Board Member, Louisiana Folklore Society, 2011 – 2017. VI. PRESENTATIONS (EXCERPT) *“Residual Transgressions: rethinking Memory, Time, and Performance Research Practices,” Working Group Co- convener (with Erica Mayer-García), Association for the Study of Theatre Research Conference, Grand Hyatt Atlanta, November 18, 2017. *“Sensuality and the Sea: Exploring the Currents Between La Caridad del Cobre, Lasirèn, and Erzulie,” Kosanba Conference: Vodou in the Twenty-First Century, Tulane University, November 1, 2017. *“Santería’s Divascapes,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Marriot City Center, Minneapolis, MN, October 21, 2017. *“Her-Story: A Folklore and Feminism Retrospective 2017,” Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Marriot City Center, Minneapolis, MN, October 21, 2017. * “In the Water with Inle: Sexuality, Performance, and Spirituality,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Annual Meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 28, 2017. *Artistic Associate and Performer, Collective Obatala, Ebb and Flow Festival, Baton Rouge, The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, April 1, 2017. 2 CURRICULUM VITAE: SOLIMAR OTERO, PH.D. * “Honoring Lydia Cabrera’s Story: Altar, Performance, and the Living Archive,” co-curator, panel chair, and organizer, American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, HistoryMiami Museum, October 22, 2016. *“The Ontology of Lydia Cabrera’s Archive: Sexuality and the Spirit,” panel chair and discussant, New Directions in Cuban Studies, University of Miami, October 20, 2016. 3 .
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